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Nigeria: Let the Court Decide El Zakzaky’s Fate – Presidency

19Jul

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Human Rights, Judiciary, Justice, News, Nigeria, Religion

Nigeria: Let the Court Decide El Zakzaky’s Fate – Presidency

The Presidency appeals to El-Zakzaky-led Shiite members to desist from needless violent street protests and await the decision of the court in Kaduna where their leader is currently being tried. The issue of El-ZakZaky is before the court in Kaduna and his supporters should focus on his on-going trial instead of causing daily damages, disruptions and public nuisance in Abuja. It is wrong to be in court and resort to violence at the same time in order to get justice for anybody accused. The destruction of public property in the name of protest is not within the right of this group of Shiite members and no government anywhere would have tolerated a situation where any group would take over public roads in cities as they have done in Abuja and interfere with the rights of other citiz...

Kwara State: Gov. AbdulRazaq Pledges Support for SME Growth

19Jul

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Economy, News, Nigeria

Kwara State: Gov. AbdulRazaq Pledges Support for SME Growth

Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Thursday pledged adequate support for the growth of small and medium scale enterprises, saying their success is key for socioeconomic development of the state. The Governor disclosed this while speaking with newsmen shortly after he visited Bawbaw Fishery located at Pampo, off Ogele-Afon Road in Asa Local Government Area of the state. According to him, this government will begin immediate intervention in the SMEs to boost youth empowerment and employment. "I'm very impressed with what I have seen and the government will intervene in supporting agric-business in the state through the Anchor Borrower Scheme of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)," he said "Our focal point is enterprise and we'll get more youth involved. It is a w...

Lagos Police Commissioner to Partner NIM on Capacity Building

18Jul

By Debo OmilaniNo Comments

Crime, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Security

Lagos Police Commissioner to Partner NIM on Capacity Building

The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Zubairu Muazu on Thursday promised to collaborate with Nigerian Institute of Management through capacity building training of officers of the State command. He disclosed this in a courtesy visit to Management House of the Institution. Saying the visit aimed to familiarize and identify with the management of the institute where he is a member. Muazu revealed that the training he received while preparing to sit for the Institute's Membership Professional Examination and the subsequent capacity building programmes he has been attending thereafter have been of immense help to his development and advancement as a Police officer. In his response, Mr. Tony Fadaka, Registrar/Chief Executive urged the commissioner of Police to engaged all the of...

Lagos Task Force Orders Removal of Illegal Structures, Kiosks on Badagry Expressway

17Jul

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Environment, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Transportation

Lagos Task Force Orders Removal of Illegal Structures, Kiosks on Badagry Expressway

The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force Lagos State Taskforce on Wednesday ordered the removal of all illegal structures, Kiosks and the end to commercial activities along Badagry Expressway within seven days. Task Force chairman, CSP Ola Yinka Egbeyemi disclosed this while addressing owners of these illegal structures and the traders at different at the expressway, warned them to immediately vacate all road setbacks and walkways within the stipulated date to avoid the wrath of law. According to him, all illegal structures, Kiosks and shanties on road set-backs and walk-ways from 'Eric Moore' down to 'Trade Fair' must be removed before Tuesday, 23rd July, 2019 He affirmed that the 'Removal Notice' became imperative in preparation for the commencement of road works to be emb...

Lagos Public Works Begins Massive Roads Rehabilitation

17Jul

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Environment, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Lagos Public Works Begins Massive Roads Rehabilitation

In fulfilment of Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu on zero tolerance for potholes, the Lagos State Public Works Corporation (LSPWC) has commenced full-scale routine repair and rehabilitation of roads across the state. Engr. Olufemi Daramola, the General Manager of LSPWC, disclosed this on Wednesday during an inspection tour of ongoing rehabilitation of Iju road, said the Corporation has been providing palliatives with the use of boulders and crush stones on strategic roads across the state to ensure free flow of traffic in spite of incessant rainfall witnessed in Lagos in the past few weeks. According to him, In line with Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Executive Order on “Operation Zero Potholes in Lagos” and his passion to ameliorate the sufferings and pains of commuters,...

Nigeria: Get Obasanjo Arrested, He Doesn’t Mean Well for the Country – Miyetti-Allah

16Jul

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Crime, Fulani Herdsmen, News, Nigeria, Security

Nigeria: Get Obasanjo Arrested, He Doesn’t Mean Well for the Country – Miyetti-Allah

In a letter dated July 15, Obasanjo asked the president to take decisive action on insecurity, saying the situation could degenerate into a full-blown crisis if not tackled appropriately. Obasanjo said rather than “hammer” the farmer-herder crisis, the impression is that the government of Buhari is treating it with kid gloves. Reacting to this letter in an interview with PUNCH, Alhassan Saleh, national secretary of Miyetti Alla Hore, asked Obasanjo to offer any information he has in order to solve the security crisis. “The fact that there is insecurity, I don’t think the Fulani are responsible for it. The narrative that we are responsible for the insecurity is even the problem we have with the Nigerian state,” he said. “When any crime happens, even before there is an investigat...

Nigerians Must Get Involved in Active Youth Engagement Says Lagos Lawmaker

15Jul

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Employment, Lagos News, News, Nigeria, Youths

Nigerians Must Get Involved in Active Youth Engagement Says Lagos Lawmaker

In commemoration of 2019 World Youth Skills Day, a member of Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Gbolahan Yishawu representing Eti-Osa constituency 02 has called on Nigerians to get involved in active youth engagement, saying this would help achieving sustainable development goals and stable society. In a statement signed and made available to AFRICAN NEWS TODAY on Monday, he said, "the active engagement of youth in sustainable development efforts is central to achieving sustainable, inclusive and stable societies and to averting the worst threats and challenges to sustainable development." Yishawu posted that young people are almost three times more likely to be unemployed than adults and continuously exposed to lower quality of jobs greater labour market inequalities, and longer an...

Opinion: You are a Disgrace to the Noble Yoruba Ancestry – Nnamdi Kanu to Tinubu

15Jul

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Fulani Herdsmen, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

Opinion: You are a Disgrace to the Noble Yoruba Ancestry – Nnamdi Kanu to Tinubu

You cannot sacrifice the blood of your brethren on the shrine of your greed, conceit and unbridled 2023 presidential political ambition. You are a disgrace to the noble Yoruba ancestry. You allow your self-centred avarice and ego to stifle the aspirations and destiny of your people. I must remind you today that your Fulani masters will never do for you what you are slavishly doing for them. You know in your heart of hearts that murderous Fulani herdsmen are culpable in the brutal murder of a Yoruba daughter and that Igbos had no hand in the Ore Highway Massacre. An influential Yoruba newspaper (PUNCH) reported that nearby villagers, who are Yorubas, informed police that the killer Fulani herdsmen have their base in a nearby forest. These are eye witness account from Yoruba people living...

Nigeria: Pension Fund Administrators Exploiting Pensioners

15Jul

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Corruption, Economy, Finance, News, Nigeria

Nigeria: Pension Fund Administrators Exploiting Pensioners

Nigerian workers have been faced with different challenges over the years. All of these challenges hinge around government's insensitivity to their plight. We have heard stories of pensioners not receiving their pensions and we have even heard of those that collapse and even die while waiting to be paid. Given all of these, Nigerian workers thought their woes were over with the introduction of PFAs which allowed their funds to be managed by independent organizations. This appears not to be the case. While we've learnt that the Federal Government for about the past two years has not been remitting to the PFAs the deductions they make from the salaries of their employees not to mention the contributions they are supposed to make, we've also learnt that the PFA's themselves have been se...

World Youth Skills Day: FG Tasked To Include Skill Acquisition in School Curriculum

15Jul

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Employment, Life, News, Nigeria, Youths

World Youth Skills Day: FG Tasked To Include Skill Acquisition in School Curriculum

In a bid to encourage entrepreneurship and improve country's economy, the federal and state governments have been urged to accommodate skills acquisition in the school curriculum. Mrs Alaba Ehindero, Executive Director, Zion Care Life & Family Impact Foundation (ZIONCLIFF) in an interview with AFRICAN NEWS TODAY opined governments should encouraged youth creativity and arouse their interest in acquiring sustainable skills. According to her, Skills for SDGs-Preneurship should be included in the Secondary Schools' Curricula especially for Senior Secondary School classes. "Some Tertiary Institutions already included enterprenual skills acquisition in the general studies courses and is made compulsory for University's students. "Even on personally basis, many youths enrol for part...